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He seemeth to be a setter forth of straunge 18
gods (because hee preached vnto them Iesus, 1 After these thinges, Paul departed from
and the resurrection.) 19 And they tooke him, Athens, and came to Corinthus, 2 And found a
and brought him into Mars streete, saying, May certaine Iewe named Aquila, borne in Pontus,
we not know, what this newe doctrine, whereof lately come from Italie, and his wife Priscilla
thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certaine (because that Claudius had commanded all Iewes
strange thinges vnto our eares: we woulde knowe to depart from Rome) and he came vnto them.
therefore, what these things meane. 21 For all 3 And because hee was of the same crafte, he
the Athenians, and strangers which dwelt there, abode with them and wrought (for their crafte
gaue them selues to nothing els, but either to tell, was to make tentes.) 4 And he disputed in the
or to heare some newes. 22 Then Paul stoode in Synagogue euery Sabbath day, and exhorted the
the mids of Mars streete, and sayde, Yee men of Iewes, and the Grecians. 5 Now when Silas and
Athens, I perceiue that in all things yee are too Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul,
superstitious. 23 For as I passed by, and behelde forced in spirit, testified to the Iewes that Iesus
your deuotions, I founde an altar wherein was was the Christ. 6 And when they resisted and
written, VNTO THE VNKNOWEN GOD. Whom ye blasphemed, he shooke his raiment, and saide
then ignorantly worship, him shewe I vnto you. vnto them, Your blood be vpon your owne head:
24 God that made the world, and all things that I am cleane: from henceforth will I goe vnto the
are therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaue and Gentiles. 7 So he departed thence, and entred
earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands, into a certaine mans house, named Iustus, a
worshipper of God, whose house ioyned hard to
25 Neither is worshipped with mens handes, as the Synagogue. And Crispus the chiefe ruler of
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though he needed any thing, seeing hee giueth the Synagogue, beleeued in the Lord with all his
to all life and breath and all things, 26 And hath housholde: and many of the Corinthians hearing
made of one blood all mankinde, to dwell on 9
all the face of the earth, and hath assigned the it, beleeued and were baptized. Then saide
seasons which were ordeined before, and the the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Feare
boundes of their habitation, 27 That they shoulde not, but speake, and holde not thy peace. 10 For
seeke the Lord, if so be they might haue groped I am with thee, and no man shall lay handes
after him, and founde him though doubtlesse on thee to hurt thee: for I haue much people
he be not farre from euery one of vs. 28 For in in this citie. 11 So he continued there a yeere
him we liue, and mooue, and haue our being, as and six moneths, and taught ye worde of God
also certaine of your owne Poets haue sayd, for among them. 12 Now when Gallio was Deputie of
we are also his generation. 29 Forasmuch then, Achaia, the Iewes arose with one accorde against
as we are the generation of God, we ought not Paul, and brought him to the iudgement seate,
to thinke that ye Godhead is like vnto gold, or 13 Saying, This fellow persuadeth me to worship
siluer, or stone grauen by arte and the inuen- God otherwise then the Lawe appointeth. 14 And
tion of man. 30 And the time of this ignorance as Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio saide
God regarded not: but nowe hee admonisheth vnto the Iewes, If it were a matter of wrong, or
all men euery where to repent, 31 Because hee an euill deede, O ye Iewes, I would according to
hath appoynted a day in the which he wil iudge reason maintaine you. 15 But if it bee a question
the world in righteousnes, by that man whome of woordes, and names, and of your Lawe, looke
hee hath appoynted, whereof he hath giuen an yee to it your selues: for I will be no iudge of
assurance to all men, in that hee hath raised those things. 16 And hee draue them from the
him from the dead. 32 Now when they heard of iudgement seate. 17 Then tooke al the Grecians
the resurrection from the dead, some mocked, Sosthenes the chiefe ruler of the Synagogue, and
and other sayde, We will heare thee againe of beat him before the iudgement seat: but Gallio
this thing. 33 And so Paul departed from among cared nothing for those things. 18 But when Paul
them. 34 Howbeit certaine men claue vnto Paul, had taried there yet a good while, hee tooke leaue
and beleeued: among whome was also Denys of the brethren, and sailed into Syria (and with
Areopagita, and a woman named Damaris, and him Priscilla and Aquila) after that he had shorne
other with them. his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vowe. 19 Then
hee came to Ephesus, and left them there: but